By John Walker on September 21st, 2009 at 9:04 am.
What if all videogame characters came to life? Awesomes, that’s what. Imagine having to dodge Combine on the way to work, or high-fiving Sonic while waiting for the bus? Life would be unquestionably better. This is the subject of a new 18 minute short film by The Seakitten Collective – a Belgian couple who create their own special effects – called Cloverbrawl. You can find it below.
Spotted by Joystiq, the film begins with a Cloverfield-esque group watching James Cameron’s speech at this year’s E3 and thus entering the obligatory coma. Until Mario shows up.
It’s packed with smart ideas and plenty of gamer in-jokes. Do watch.
Damm good movie
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That was fun.
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That was rather brilliant.
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Solid!
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The idea’s pretty cool, but the execution leaves a lot to be desired. Pretty much instantly forgettable for me.
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It certainly isn’t professional quality, and certainly some relative critical judgement is in play here, certainly. But also it is brilliant, so shut up and also you smell.
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truth, best bit was everyone falling asleep while Cameron prattled on about Avatar at E3, rest of it was pretty terrible
didnt bother with the second half
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Thoroughly enjoyed that. Really good fun.
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awe… i want to watch this but cant till later :(
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*pats on shoulder*
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Man, that’s a lot of Valve games.
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That was… mmm… pretty random.
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The first to minutes made me cringe, and then I closed the tab :(
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WWGFD will always amuse me. Also, this is ace, so win-win there.
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Well, the vid doesn’t load very well, but it stops at very amusing moments, such as the moment they finish saying ‘Where’s the cake?’ and ‘Dude, you’ve got issues.’
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Good Stuff, bravo.
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The acting was entirely cringeworthy i’ll admit, but the rest of it was pretty fun and inventive.
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Although maybe this could do with a trim here and there this was still remarkable. Excellent work guys!
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I’m sorry to say this, but it looked pretty stupid. Maybe I’m not THAT kind of a gamer.
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Obese, with bad facial hair, and into gaming memes? Yeah, you’re not the only one.
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Enjoyed this
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I mean, kind of funny, but it doesn’t go past mere reference.
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I think what everyone meant to say was WOW despite significantly less time and production costs it is significantly better than all of these:
Super Mario Bros.
Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture
Double Dragon
Street Fighter
Mortal Kombat
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
Pokémon: The First Movie – Mewtwo Strikes Back (July 18, 1998)
Wing Commander
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
Pokémon 4Ever – Celebi, Voice of the Forest
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Resident Evil
Pokémon Heroes
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
House of the Dead
Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Alone in the Dark
Air
Final Fantasy VII Advent Children
Doom
BloodRayne
Forbidden Siren
Silent Hill
Dead or Alive
Dōbutsu no Mori (Animal Crossing)
Clannad
BloodRayne II: Deliverance
Resident Evil: Extinction
Hitman
In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
OneChanbara
Postal
Like a Dragon
Far Cry
Max Payne
Resident Evil: Degeneration
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li
Imagine what they could have done with a budget.
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Hitman and Max Payne are pretty good as far as shitty action movies go.
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Silent Hill wasn’t awful as stupid horror films go.
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Hey! I always thought Resident Evil was a pretty competent and entertaining stupid movie. :P
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If they’d had a budget the film would have been stopped from being made by the dozens of copyright infringement lawsuits it would get slapped with.
Also: it’s better than Clannad? But, presumably, not as good as Enya?
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Mortal Kombat was a camp cheesy classic, the music alone makes it better than this.
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Well, it has a gratuitous Wilhelm scream, which is something.
I don’t quite now how something quite so heavily neckbearded can live with itself after giving the strider the wrong weapon, though. Surely it should now be decrying itself on the Internets for ruining Half-Life 2 forever?
Best part of it was the end credits, and that’s just because of Anamanaguchi.
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Also, shame on you that disrespect the Street Fighter. That film was brilliant and you Angry Internet Men are just butthurt that it didn’t take your silly little computervideogame seriously.
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@Jockie: Agreed but then the music from the film Mortal Kombat was better than the film Mortal Kombat.
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try and name the games.
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I’d advise you to try and stick through the first half – the second is lolawesome.
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That was awesome, meme-filled-awesome, but awesome none the less.
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Excellent! :D
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I do love the sound that Striders make.
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The very very end was good, the rest quite amusing when they weren’t talking.
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Loved the second part, cringed mostly at the first one. But overall a very nice job. :-)
Was cool to see my home city in there, too!
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“C’mon, it’s got frame drops.”
That bit made me laugh my ass off. :)
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Hi all…
I am playing games on pc and i like to know more about gaming…
I like this article because it’s provide lot’s of fun and knowledge…
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DELET-O-TRON SHALL FEAST TONIGHT
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Hi all…
I am playing games on pc and i like to know more about gaming…
I like this article because it’s provide lot’s of fun and knowledge…
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